Farm Workers Exploited - And This is The US

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 09/22/2011

Some migrant farm workers toil in the tobacco fields of North Carolina for sub-poverty wages and under unacceptable conditions, according to a report by Oxfam America of a study it conducted together with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. Some of these problems stem from the fact that many of these workers do not have the necessary visas to work in the US and so cannot complain for fear of being deported. Their lives are said to be dominated by fear. But the problems are caused, too, because growers are not paid enough for their tobacco; so find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Enditem